Final thoughts on a great year!
Well, that went quickly!
I was really looking forward to teaching the class again this year and they have not disappointed. I’ve had a great year and have thoroughly enjoyed teaching them again. There have been so many highlights this year. Here’s an A – Z of favourite memories:
- Ahmed’s absolute desire to always reach the top of the learning mountain in maths lessons.
- Archie body popping his way to the Moortown’s Got Talent title.
- Arran’s scene-stealing performance in the production, wearing a strap-on tortoise shell!
- Bailey’s brilliant, last minute Mouse performance in the production.
- Brandon’s growing obsession with Bear Grylls.
- Ethan’s incredible drawings of Robo-Dog.
- Henry’s great writing progress whilst continuing to be the ‘human calculator’.
- Ibrahim’s funny, yet annoying, cricket sound effects.
- Isabella’s brilliant performance in the production (She even knew most of the lines from Act II as well!)
- Jahneil’s blossoming fractions confidence in maths.
- Jaskirat’s great creative homeworks
- Jawaad’s many pets and Fighting Fantasy books.
- Jennifer’s amazing homeworks and Scratch creations.
- Lanas’ superb learning behaviour.
- Lennox’s solo singing in the production – and his scream!
- Levon’s deadpan humour.
- Linda’s enthusiasm!
- Molly’s fabulous performances in the school sports teams.
- Oliver’s sense of humour.
- Pavan’s singing and all round performance in the production.
- Ravinder pulling his shorts up to his chest in PE lessons and acting as if it was perfectly normal.
- The shock that Rayhaan doesn’t love Hondas anymore!
- Roshan’s laugh.
- Sam trying not to giggle in RSE lessons.
- Shahban’s Malteser song: “Malteser. I’m gonna tease ya! I’m gonna eat ya! Malteaser!”
- Simran laughing so much that she starts to cry.
- Sofiah’s love of Jacqueline Wilson.
- Tayshaun’s “Make way for the King and Queen of Hearts!” in the production.
- Yahya’s very slow reaction time when Lennox poured water on him at the Mad Hatter’s tea party.
- Zachary becoming the first Prime Minister of Year 5 in our election.
Thanks to all for their part in making it a great year. A big thanks also to Mrs Bald who has done a brilliant job. Have a great summer holiday and I’ll see you in September.
Summer Reading Challenge 2015
This year, the Summer Reading Challenge returns with the challenge of breaking records!
It’s really simple to join in and complete the challenge. All you have to do is
- Join any Leeds library (including mobile libraries).
- Borrow three books and read them. (You could write a short book review on them too.)
- You can borrow any book: stories, joke books, information books or even audio books.
- Return these (to any Leeds library) and borrow another three books.
- That means you need only borrow six books altogether – or more, of course!
- Once you’ve returned your second lot of three books, your challenge is complete!
We’re hoping to get lots more children taking on the challenge this year and enjoying their reading over the summer. Try not to borrow thick books that you’re never going to finish and make sure you pick books you’re going to be interested in, or, try something new. For any more information, take a look at the leaflet below.
Healthy Schools award
Following our School Health check earlier this year, to maintain our Healthy Schools status, we were proud to attend the Healthy Schools celebration event to receive our award. Held in the debating chamber at Leeds Civic Hall, we enjoyed presentations from councillors and other schools around the 4 areas of Healthy Schools – physical activity, PSHE (personal, social and health education), healthy eating and emotional health.
Two of our sports leaders were invited to lead a practical session in the break for other pupils who were attending. They did this with great confidence and encouragement.
As part of the event we also had the opportunity to use the voting system in the debating chamber to vote on key areas across health and wellbeing for councillors to consider on a city-wide strategic level. Based on data from the 2014 My Health My School survey, our current Year 5 and 6 classes will be completing this survey for 2015. The top priorities identified were levels of physical activity and eating 5 a day.
Summer sports and arts camp (Edward Lynch)
Edward Lynch, a local dance coach who has worked with children during our curriculum and extra-curricular dance sessions, is helping to run a local sport and arts camp called IMPACT in the summer holidays.
Healthy changes
As part of our SEAL theme of Changes, last week our SEAL statement focussed on making healthy changes. Some suggestions from Year 1 include:
- have fruit dessert instead of cake
- do more after-school clubs
- ride a bike more
- walk to the shops instead of driving
- do parkruns with your family
- go roller skating or skateboarding more
- walk to school more
- drink more water
- run somewhere every day
- eat more or different vegetables
- ask to go swimming more
What healthy change could you make?
Change 4 life and Leeds Let’s Change can offer lots of suggestions.
Alice in Wonderland
A massive well done to the class for their first performance this afternoon. You all did brilliantly to bring this rather bonkers story to life!
Looking forward to Thursday’s final performance!
10 minute shake up
Recently children have brought home information from Change 4 life on their latest campaign, 10 minute shake up. Similar to our daily Wake Up Shake Up activity, here is a 10 minute shake up video for you to follow at home.
Code Club
It was the last Code Club of the year on Tuesday. This term, we’ve had the highest participation in two years and also the highest number of female coders.
As well as using Scratch this term, we’ve started building our own webpages using Trinket.
A massive thank you must go to Linda Broughton who gives up her time every Tuesday to run Code Club. Thanks also to Mr Baynes and Mrs Freeman who have helped out this year.
Maths Problems
Explaining subtraction by decomposition using Base 10 resources.
